Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-02

them power and that the only districts
held by the Republicans are those in
which white Republicans have sufficient
strength to secuIe something like fair
election. 1t follows therefore, that
the only reasonable hope that the Repuo-
licans have OF breaking the solid south IN
the immediate future is 10 the sections
where we now have considerable
white Republican strength and where
there is reasonable hope that with proper
effort he may add to that strength from
the white voters. Stretching from
Pennsylvania and Ohio Yearly to the
Gulf of Mexico is mountainous
section whose inhabitants were for the
most part noR-slaveholders. The people
were farmers, not planters. During
the war me- orlty of those
people were loyal to the Union.
This section embraces West Virginia and
portions of Maryland, Kentucky, Vir-
gina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. In this
section the Republican party
now has considerable strength;
indeed all the Republicans e'ected from
the south to the Fiftieth Congress, ex-
cept the members from Missouri, are
from some portion of this section.
Here the Republican party made its only
gains in the south at the last
election and here with proper efforts the
solid south may be broken. The National
Union League is peculiarly ada pied to
lead in the necessary preparatory work;
therefore
Resolved, that the League will labor to
break the solid south on the line above
indicated, and that the Pr sident appoint
a committee of five, Of which he
shall be chairman, who shall have full
authority 10 carry into effect the policy
OF the League.
Under this resolution, The President
appointed the following named gentlemen
as such committee:
C. II Grosvenor, eX-ofiicio, Ohio; w.
L. Chandler, New Hampshire; James A.
Negley, Pennsylvania; Nathan Golf, West
Virginia; S. M. CIapp, District Columbia;
J. Z Butant, Georgia; Green B. Raum,
Illinois; L. o. Houck, Tennessee; G. A,
Boutelle; Maine; j r. Lynch, Missis-
sippi; j. D. Brady, Virginia; H. Petit
bone, Tennessee; L. W. Fox, District of
Columbia; J. r. Rice, Maryland.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
WASHINGTON, March THE changes
ilauC III luc IlFcl DOl Jill dS OOllI-
pared with the measure passed by the
Senate are with two exceptions reduc-
tons.
Senator Morgan to-day introduced a
resolution requesting the President to
suspend payment in the We'll and La Abra
claims sgainst Mexico until the question
of fraud in obtaining the awards shall
have been fully Investigated.
The conference report on the river and
harbor bill has been adopted by the Sen
ate, and the bill now goes to the President
for signature.
The conferences on the diplomatic and
consular DILL have reached an agreement,
and the bill stands practically as it was
passed by the Senate.
The Senate has ordered the preparation
of an index to its secret journal for fifty
years, from 1929 to 1879 The injunction
of secrecy will probably be removed next
autumn.
In the criminal court to-day John L.
West (colored), eX-clerk in the General
Land Office, was sentenced to six years in
Albany penitentiary for entering the
house OF Mrs. Mary Page in November
last and attempting to assault her.